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Facebook is collecting information about you from other sources
This post is initially inspired by the following flash presentation: http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/
I can’t vouch for its final conclusions, but the rest is verifiable. Check your Facebook “agreement” for corroboration. In short, the film quotes Facebook’s privacy policy as stating the following:
Facebook may also collect information about [...]

Our Parents do More Drugs Than We Do…

From BusinessWeek online:
… Young adults drink less coffee than their parents, and they tend to drink it on the go. It’s a bitter change for Folgers and Maxwell House …
What’s that song by Dar Williams? “Are You Out There..“?

It costs $42 billion to arrest potheads…?

… the problem is, of course, that if we stopped making these arrests (like Canada and Amsterdam?), the gov’t would just throw that $42billion right into the War on Terror(ism). Maybe this is a better use of our resources … (hah)
See article from Forbes.com here: Marijuana’s $42 Billion Question
The U.S. marijuana is a $113 [...]

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